ABLY
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7 00 Students
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Vol. 40, No. 104.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Wednesday, March 19, 19411
Farmer to mechanic
in four months at ag
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From farmer to mechanic in a four month's course Is what a
dozen young men just took a crack at in a speciahsession on engines
and mechanical processes just concluded at the ag college.
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Two of the group are shown In the woodworking shop, one of the
most popular spots according to supervisor, J. V. Srb. How to inspect
a motor thoroly is the subject of l Hurlbut's conversation with an
other pair of students in the other picture.
Engineering magazine . .
Blue Print features photo
series on plane construction
Featuring an unusual picture of
a blast furnace on its cover and a
photo scries on how airplanes are
made, the March Issue of Blue
Print came out today.
An article by Roy Gatch, me-
Follies ticket
sale begins
Women selling 20 tickets to the
Coed Follies, March 27, will get a
ticket free, Dorothy White, chair
Man of the Follies, announced yes
terday when tickets went on sale.
Four women from each sorority,
Rix from residence halls for women
'"id six barbs at large will sell the
tn ki ts. All coeds who are in the
skits are required to buy tickets.
Model practice.
Starting at 7 p. m. tonight,
""l' l practice- will be held in so
Cl:'l sciences auditorium. The
Models are instructed to wear the
outfit they wish to model in the
Jil'ow, and Mrs. T. A. I'adley who
M'lped judge them last week, will
uss their clothes with them.
Betty O'Shea, skit chairman, is
""''d a request yesterday that all
jikit rnastors make an appointment
y practice on the stage of the
iv'ple. After they make the ap
pointment they should call her and
report the time. Dress rehearsal
Jh Wednesday, March 20, which is
U'c night before the show.
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Journal and Star.
chanical engineering student, dis
cusses the advantages and uses of
gas turbines. Along with the
article is a full page picture of a
cast iron steel spiral casting of
one of the 115,000 horse power
turbines for Boulder Dam.
Other articles by students are
Jack Moore's story on the new
"pendulum" suspension railway
car, and Winston Hedge's and
Walter Sanderson's coverage of
the joint engineers' meeting.
Moore is in electrical engineering,
Hedges and Sanderson are in ag
engineering. ,
ASME, AIEE
will nieel
loni"lit
At a meeting of the Nebraska
chapter of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers in M. K.
200 at 7:30 p. rn. today, Leo I Hit
ler will present a paper on ".Steel
at Elevated Temperatures." This
paper, Dean O. J. Ferguson said,
should be especially Interesting to
those who are studying metallo
graphy. The American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers will meet also at
7:15 p. m., to hear Harold M.
Bishop speak on "Neon Light
ing." Supplementing his address
wll be an inspection trip to the
Nebraska Neon company. This
will bo an open meeting, with
sophomores especially invited. The
meeting will bo in Braco lab. 211.
9Boy Meets Girl' opens today
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Grade Fields
sings, johes
to aid British
. war victims
A mill girl, a singer outside
actors' rooming houses and small
touring revues finally led to the
Grade Fields who today is an
English idol. She is now the best
loved, best-paid actress in Eng
land. All the proceeds from her ap
pearance at the coliseum tomor
row at 8 p. m. will be returned
to war victims, especially to Brit
ish children. Miss Fields receives
no income from her round of one
night stands; the entire gate re
ceipt goes to relief as fast as it
can be transported.
Amazing success.
Grade Fields has had most
amazing success. She appeared for
wo and one-half years in "It's a
Bargain" and seven years in "Mr.
Tower of London," playing 4,000
performances without a break.
Miss Fields is a natural comic
and such a human sort of person
that she does not appear to be
acting. She has packed every audi
torium, theater, and coliseum In
which she has appeared, proving
that she is good.
I-M debaters
clash again
March 25
Intercollegiate teams
I ravel lo Kansas, York
on Thursday and Friday
Debaters will take the spotlight
the next two weeks when both
i n t r a m ural and intercollegiate
competition will take place, H. A,
White, debate coach, stated today.
Tairing for the second round of
intramurals to be held at 7 p. m.,
March 25 pits Alpha Tau Omega,
affirmative, against Zeta Beta
Tau, negative; Delta Upsilon, af
firmative, against Sigma Alpha
Mu, negative, and Delta Theta
Phi, affirmative; against Delta
Tau Delta, negative. Phi Delta
Theta drew a bye.
Teams that lose both of the
preliminary rounds will be climl
dated from competition, White
said. Debates will be held Rgain
in the chapter house of the af
firmative team, with an intercol
legiate debater acting as judge.
Teams to York and Kansas.
Nebraska's intercollegiate de
baters will hit the road Thursday
and Friday with one team debat
ing at Marysville, Kansas, against
Kansas State college and the
other at York against York col
lege. With Gene Bradley and Jack
Stewart representing Nebraska,
the question for the Kansas State
debates will be: Resolved, that
the United States should enter
the war rather than see the de
feat of the British Empire.
Pari lime johs
open in library
Students wishing to apply
for part time positions In the
library may take the annual
competitive examination on
Saturday, March 29, at 9 a. m.
In the reserve , reading room.
Students are asked to apply as
soon as possible to Miss Rut
ledgo at hor office near the
loan desk on the main ftoor of
the library.
Final Uni Theatre production
stars Soldcvilla, Flick, Black
Following the final dress rehearsal last night, which Director Ar
mand Hunter announced was "more than satisfying," the University
Theatre players are readying themselves today for their opening to
night of "Boy Meets Girl." This is the final production of the Theatre's
current season, The play will open at the Temple with the curtain
at 7:30 p. m.
Hoiiorarics
ilan annual
janquet
PBK, Sigma Xi to hold
joint meeting March 25;
will name new members
The annual joint meeting of
Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi will
be held Tuesday, March 25, at the
Student Union, Clifford M. Hicks,
secretary for Phi Beta Kappa, and
E. Roger Washburn, secretary for
Sigma Xi, announced.
A dinner at 6:30 will precede
the public meeting at which Dr.
Ellsworth Faris, who is widely
known in the fields of general
social science and sociology, will
be the speaker.
Dr. Faris will speak on the sub
ject "Toward a Science of Man."
He has served as president of the
American Sociological Society and
as chairman of the department of
sociology, University of Chicago,
until 1939.
At this meeting the new mem
bers of both honoraries will be
announced. The meeting at 8 p. m.
is open to the public. Members of
Tin Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi
may invite friends who are not
members to the dinner.
Play-writing
contest offers
$500 prize
Armand Hunter takes
charge of local contest;
scripts must he original
University students with play
writing ability have an opportun
ity to compete for the $500 Charles
H. Sergei prize being offered by
the University of Chicago for the
best one-act play submitted.
Armand Hunter, director of the
speech department is in charge of
the contest on this campus and
will select the plays to be submit
ted in the national contest. Not
more than two manuscripts will be
received from any university, and
all scripts must bo original and
unpublished or unproduced.
Siring ensemble
presents program
in Lincoln schools
The university string ensemble,
30 students under the direction of
Kmamiel Wishnow, will play at
assemblies today in the three Lin
coln junior high schools, Irving,
Whittier, and Kvcrett. Cathrcine
Tunison, soprano and Omaha
junior, will appear as soloist.
The program will be as follows:
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Cast in the leading roles of the
play are Romulo Soldevilla and
Clarence Flick, representing a
pair of script writers of the Royal
Studios in Hollywood. Much of the
comedy in the ijlay depends upon
the antics of this pair. Carrying
the feminine lead is Dorothy Tip
ton as the innocent waitress about
whom most of the action will center.
Black plays 'big shot'
Robert Black will carry the rola
of the "big-shot" studio executive,
whose life is one of constant wor
ry and bicarbonate-of-soda. Other
major roles include those of Louis
Meyer, the manager of a popular
western star, Larry Toms (Neale
Morrow); and Mildred Manning
in the role of an efficient, if some
what regal, secretary to the "big
shot"
Another pair- of screw-balls who
liven up the play with their "art"
are two song-writers, Green and
(See THEATRE, page 2.)
Mickey wins
WAA prexy
position
Jeannette Mickey was elected
president of WAA by intramural
representatives, sports board mem
bers and WAA council members
at the election yesterday. The de
feated candidate, Mary Ellen
Robinson, will automatically be
come the vice president of the
council.
The new president is a member
of Tassels, vice president of the
AWS board, girls sports editor of
the DAILY NEBRASKAN, and
was the treasurer of the WAA
'council this year. The new vice
president is a member of Tassels
and was secretary of the WAA
council.
The other officers of the coun
cil selected Tuesday are Ann Ar
bitman, secretary; Dorothy Mar
tin, treasurer; and Betty Newman,
concessions manager.
Capitol
Personalities
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To some of the people in the
university, the gentleman in the
picture above is a familiar figure.
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